2809910 - Dump database to NULL device on Unix - SAP ASE

• How to dump a database to NULL device on Unix ?
  
  
• A dump database to '/dev/null' fails with 'Invalid Device' message:
  

  dump database model to "/dev/null"
  go
  
  Backup Server: 4.134.2.1: Invalid Device: you cannot dump to or load from the null device, '/dev/null'.
  
  

• A dump database to '/dev/null' with multiple stripes fails with error 3250
  
  dump database model to "/dev/null"
  stripe on "/dev/null"
  go
  
  Msg 3250, Level 16, State 1:
  The devices '/dev/null' and '/dev/null' specified in the command should be different.

• SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
• SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition (ASE CE)
• UNIX OS

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